APC waivers and discounts

Springer Nature offers APC waivers to papers whose corresponding authors are based in countries classified by the World Bank as low-income economies as of July 2018.

Papers whose corresponding authors are based in countries with lower-middle-income economies and with a 2017 gross domestic product (GDP) of less than 200 billion US dollars are eligible for a 50% discount (reference - World Bank 1st July 2018).

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APC waivers are not offered for open access publication in Springer Nature subscription journals offering a hybrid option, as authors without the funds to publish open access in these journals can publish via the subscription route. See here for further information on hybrid journals in Springer and Palgrave imprints and hybrid academic journals on nature.com.